{"id":232809,"date":"2017-10-11T09:02:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T07:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=232809"},"modified":"2017-10-11T09:02:07","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T07:02:07","slug":"data-centre-projects-advantages-of-using-a-reference-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/industrynews\/232809-data-centre-projects-advantages-of-using-a-reference-design.html","title":{"rendered":"Data centre projects: Advantages of using a reference design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strong incentives exist to plan, build, and commission data centres faster.<\/p>\n<p>However, the common reality of tighter budgets, less staff, uncertain and dynamic IT load, and an uncompromised need for high availability makes it difficult to do this optimally.<\/p>\n<p>It is no longer practical or cost-effective to completely engineer all aspects of a unique data centre.<\/p>\n<p>Effective planning is the key.<\/p>\n<p>Using a reference design to plan a new data centre saves time and effort while reducing risk and improving reliability.<\/p>\n<p>Being built on pre-engineered systems intended to interoperate with each other, reference designs reduce risk and improve overall predictability and reliability as compared to using a custom, one-off design built from scratch.<\/p>\n<p>Using a reference design as a starting point in the planning process helps bring a new data centre online faster and helps ensure there are fewer surprises and problems once it\u2019s operational.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tracker.mybroadband.co.za\/\/track.php?page=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5hcGMuY29tL3phL2VuL3Byb2RfZG9jcy9yZXN1bHRzLmNmbT9Eb2NUeXBlPVdoaXRlK1BhcGVyJnF1ZXJ5X3R5cGU9OTkma2V5d29yZD1SZWZlcmVuY2UrRGVzaWduKw?source=Article%201%20of%201\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Schneider Electric<\/strong><strong>\u2019s white paper<\/strong><\/a> defines reference designs and explains their benefits.<\/p>\n<p>In general, a reference design is a system blueprint, list of attributes including system level performance specifications, and (ideally) includes a detailed list of materials or components that comprise the system.<\/p>\n<p>While a reference design can be directly implemented, more typically, it serves as a baseline design that is adapted to meet specific user preferences or constraints.<\/p>\n<p>A data centre reference design acts as a starting point offering a project team several valuable benefits including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Facilitating and simplifying the planning phase<\/li>\n<li>Reducing time to create buildable designs<\/li>\n<li>Reducing risk, offering predictable performance and improved reliability of the data centre once operational<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Schneider Electric\u2019s paper describes what a data centre reference design is, what it includes, and explains how the benefits listed above are achieved.<\/p>\n<p>To download the whitepaper, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/tracker.mybroadband.co.za\/\/track.php?page=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5hcGMuY29tL3phL2VuL3Byb2RfZG9jcy9yZXN1bHRzLmNmbT9Eb2NUeXBlPVdoaXRlK1BhcGVyJnF1ZXJ5X3R5cGU9OTkma2V5d29yZD1SZWZlcmVuY2UrRGVzaWduKw?source=Article%201%20of%201\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Schneider Electric website<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reference designs simplify and shorten the planning and implementation process and reduce downtime risks once up and 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